My parents have a dog that loves to lick the wood trim around their doorways... very odd. He also sucks furiously on his dog bed - never chews it, just sucks like baby. He is at least 5 years old and a giant English Mastiff... very odd dogs indeed :)

Off topic, but I love your blogs. I just read on the New Yorker website that Laura Ingles Wilder had another location she did not write about. She wrote about upstate New York, and Wisconsin (where my ancestors settled at about the same time) and the Great Plains. But after she married Almanzo Wilder she became Mrs. A.J Wilder who wrote weekly columns from a farm in Missouri. Does that sound familiar?

Our old shepherd mix (who looked a lot like Bear, but was bigger) used to love to lick his beagle-brother whenever he was wet. After a bath or a walk in the rain, that beagle was licked dry whether he wanted it or not :)

December 2015 update: Hi! For some reason I can't figure out, Blogger hasn't been letting me leave comments on my own blog (!) for the last several months, so I've been unable to respond to your comments and questions. My apologies for any inconvenience! You're always welcome to email me: farmgirlfare AT gmail DOT com.

Hi! Thanks for visiting Farmgirl Fare and taking the time to write. While I'm not always able to reply to every comment, I receive and enjoy reading them all.

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